InfiniteRand

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by InfiniteRand 12y ago
My main annoyance with Python, as someone who had C++ as his first programming language, is I cannot stand significant whitespace. Really. I know that this is a petty, peevish, not technically valid reason, but because of that Python irrita
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by InfiniteRand 12y ago
I think there was a period of time when the military used a random word generator for operations. Whether or not this is a figment of my imagination, I think it would not be a bad idea for the NSA or any organization with a constant churn o
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by InfiniteRand 12y ago
I think the author misses how weird the world already is. The broad point, that software is becoming more important culturally, and software can become culturally important faster and for less justification, is I think probably true. But I
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by InfiniteRand 12y ago
If you want really accurate math, the best idea for a program is maintain a representation of an expression until it absolutely needs to, since every time the math is condensed into actual numbers there is usually some loss of precision. Ev
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by InfiniteRand 12y ago
It's hard to get people to give you money for something you are willing to do for free. Enjoyable creative pursuits tend to be like that for those who are not superstars
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by InfiniteRand 12y ago
I think the real problem is selective shredding. If you're burning a computer, this is not a problem, but say you get one sensitive file every month, but otherwise you want to keep your files easily backed up and accessible. Being able
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by InfiniteRand 12y ago
I'm not sure how alarmed I am by this. I certainly have seen this in action on Wikipedia at least, if not on the scale described, but I have little doubt it occurs and I can think of a couple events whose online conversations show evid
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by InfiniteRand 12y ago
My issue with Powershell is it creates a distance from the scripting language and an ordinary executable, which makes it difficult to use just a little bit (and I suppose violates the rule about composability).
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by InfiniteRand 12y ago
There is a potential here for there to be a change similar to the 18th century. Suddenly, non-governmental forces or fledgling governments can quickly equip a lightly armed force. For the last 1-2 centuries you needed a manufacturing infras
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by InfiniteRand 12y ago
Rust actually makes me think a lot about Ada, if you want to program, you need to program correctly. Probably the reason I will not use Rust is the same reason I only look at Ada in a professional context, I usually start projects with some
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by InfiniteRand 12y ago
How could bromine be a bad thing? It has "bro" right in the name!
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by InfiniteRand 12y ago
I find the systemd debate vaguely interesting but not especially relevant to me, however I must applaud the effort of these guys. They were dissatisfied with ongoing trends and decided to work on an alternative. Kudos, good sirs, kudos.
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by InfiniteRand 12y ago
Very interesting article and analysis, although it would be nice if it explained what exactly a "Green Thread" is. From the article, I am guessing that a "Green Thread" is related to the lightweight low-level concurrency
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by InfiniteRand 12y ago
The internet 1.0 was designed so grad students could argue about Star Trek while pretending to publish research
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by InfiniteRand 12y ago
Just to throw something out there, maybe for important cures to diseases, the government should just pay a one time purchase of the patent and make it public domain (or something like that). I imagine the price of the patent would be extrem
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by InfiniteRand 12y ago
The main issue I think is having an active vs intert system as a data storage mechanism. A usb drive must interact with the computer in order to transmit data, a CD or DVD are ultimately inert disks which are read without any back and forth
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by InfiniteRand 12y ago
Honestly, if I were still a web developer, I would still use a library. The libraries greatly simplify things for the standard use cases. If I could not use a library, I would look for the unminified code of a library and copy and paste it
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by InfiniteRand 12y ago
Well, the author recommends induction as a means of figuring this out, and it seems for induction to work we need to have some existing example to induce the principle from (if I am remembering my maths, I might not be). So to figure out ou
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by InfiniteRand 12y ago
One issue I have with this and similar architectures is that it often sticks an HTTP stack where it is not needed. The HTTP request/response paradigm does add a useful process management architecture, but it seems like you could implem
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by InfiniteRand 12y ago
While I would not necessarily prioritize this above any of their other concerns mentioned in the roadmap, I would love to see openssl use a more standard build process instead of generating code through perl as part of their build